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The effects of feedback valance and progress monitoring on goal striving

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Borovoi, L., Schmidtke, Kelly and Vlaev, Ivo (2022) The effects of feedback valance and progress monitoring on goal striving. Current Psychology, 41 . pp. 4574-4591. doi:10.1007/s12144-020-00925-8 ISSN 1046-1310.

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Abstract

The current paper explores how people’s goal strivings are influenced by feedback (positively valenced vs. negatively valenced), progress monitoring (remaining vs. accumulated) and goal specificity (vague vs. specific). Two laboratory-based experiments were performed. Experiment 1 reveals that, after receiving positively valenced feedback, participants who focus on accumulated progress show larger boosts in persistence than participants who focus on remaining progress. In contrast, after receiving negatively valenced feedback, participants who focus on remaining progress show larger boosts in persistence than participants who focus on accumulated progress. Experiment 2 extends the scope of the paper from understanding the effects of progress monitoring on goal striving to the effects goal specificity on goal striving. Experiment 2 shows that after receiving negatively valenced feedback, participants asked to consider specific goals (and so likely focus on remaining progress) show more persistence than participants asked to consider vague goals (and so likely focus on accumulated progress). These findings have important implications for motivation theory and applied practice.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Motivation (Psychology) , Goal (Psychology), Feedback (Psychology), Behavior therapy
Journal or Publication Title: Current Psychology
Publisher: Springer New York LLC
ISSN: 1046-1310
Official Date: July 2022
Dates:
DateEvent
July 2022Published
30 July 2020Available
27 June 2020Accepted
Volume: 41
Page Range: pp. 4574-4591
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-020-00925-8
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 8 July 2020
Date of first compliant Open Access: 19 August 2020
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